NewsForge's editor Joe Barr spent some time with the current development version of Rekall 2.2. Rekall is a dual-licensed GUI database front-end with aspirations of becoming Linux's answer to Microsoft Access (screenshots of tables, forms and debugger). He finds it already very usable today and predicts a bright future. The release of the final Rekall 2.2 version is expected for late April or May.

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I wanted to use rekall, and then could not work out if I could download a version for windows.
I searched google, looked around. Trolltech really need to update and fix their website for rekall.
Of course, rekallrevealed.org was hacked, so I might have just gotten a bad impression..

Please, please trolltech - put a windows version somewhere. If you want to charge for it, then _make it clear_. Add it to rekallrevealed.org under download that you have to pay for it, and add a very simple way for me to pay for it.

Yes you can. Someone buys a version of Qt and then releases their software under the GPL license. It isn't likely to happen, but people write GPL'd software for Windows by buying Visual Studio. Quite how Trolltech would react to this I don't know, as they think GPL'd software on Windows is a bit hazy.

Here's an idea...
As well as forms, let it create web forms, and integrate it with a webserver. :)
Then you can have one program to do both a fat client and be a server for a thin browser based client.
Sorta like domino..

Not to put down the wonderful things that theKompany does, but it would have been that little bit nicer if they used LGPL so that it could be integrated in KDE, and projects such as kexi.
But I guess they thought that wouldn't have been a good thing commerically.

Well I'm rather impartial on this, except to say that we need something 'Access like' to be able to knock up good databases, queries, forms etc. Kexi looks very interesting, as does Rekall, so I'm happy to have them both. The commercial Rekall will not be a problem for most people as it is so cheap that will be free software to many businesses and organisations!